WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

101 made purpofely for that fervice ; and was at- tended by his Secretary, his Sewer, a Page, a Valet deChambre, and a Running Footman ; and overtaken on the Road, by the Gentleman ofhisHorfe, whom fome neceflary Bufinefs had hinderd,from fetting out with him. But before we leave Rome, it may not be amifs to recount an Affair, which his Lordlhpi fully fettled, before his departure. One Fiori (a Piedmontefe of quality, and banifti'd thence, a while fince) after he had lux- urioufly fpent vaft fums at Farà, Vienna,and other places, man'd out to Sea (inPerfon) aPrivatier, t under the Foli/h Banner, tho' that Kingdom, has no one foot of Land, near Salt-water : When Roving in the Mediterranean, he met (towards the Coaft of Egypt ) two Englilh Ships, the Jerufalem and another ; and making them both Prizes (the laft, becaufe fhe wanted a fufficient Pafs, and thè other, for having the New Bajfa of Tripoli, with his Family, on Board) carry'd them directly for Dd Malta: